Hi everybody,
this is my first post and embarassing nubi question.
I checked out all the examples and tutorials and I still can't figure out how to do this in PD.

I want to trigger samples according to the time on the computer clock
i.e. sample x played every 3 seconds from 12:10 to 12:12 pm
sample y play once at 12:11pm

can anyone direct me to a similar patch or example? I will be very grateful.

thank you

Gottlieb

GridFlow has a [unix_time] object that can get the current system time, which might be an option for you if you are running Linux or MacOS X (afaik GridFlow won't work on Windows). One of [unix_time]'s outlets gives a list of year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and i think miliseconds and/or microseconds too. I use it to time-stamp recordings, so that if my patch crashes during a performance i don't have to do anything to avoid overwriting the previous recording.

http://gridflow.ca

I think there are time objects in other libraries too, but I've never used them.